• Infocom Takes A More Serious Role
• Enterprise Hits The Streets
• In Brief
• Electronic Greetings From Mr. MSX
• Key Feature
• We Know We're Tops - Now You Do Too
• Putting A Tax On High Technology - View From Japan
• Sharp Makes A Point With MZ800 Launch
• Dancing On The Head Of A Pin
• Peace Move Brings Further Advance
• Carpet Crawler
• Crescent Drives Disk Prices Down
• Atari Set To Blossom Under Tramiel Touch
• Acorn Retreats From US Market
• Wanted: One Cheap Spanish Language Kit - Homefront

Get out your pens or priinters and unburden yourself on our letters page.

• Memotech Is Its Own Worst Enemy,
• Don't Ignore The Sharp Potential,
• Sir Clive - "MSX Won't Beat Us",
• A Warning Note To Buyers, and
• Compatibility Could Bring MSX Success.

More problems solved by our panel of experts.

• Vic Memory Map Maze Unravelled,
• Do I Have The Right System For Business?
• Connecting An ICL Monitor To The C64,
• Thoroughly Modern Modems In Demand,
• BBC Micro Second Processor Query, and
• Addressing Graphics On The Spectrum.

How to win friends, influence people and earn money - share your hints and tips here.

• Simpler Editing On The QL,
• Amstrad Basic Storage Structure, and
• ROM/RAM Dump On The Amstrad.

• Bubblesorting On The Spectrum
  The bubble sort technique is as old as data processing. Here's a handy machine code version for Basic programmers.
   
• Commodore 64 Epson Printer Driver
  Turn the user port on your Commodore 64 into a Centronics interface with our series of assembler utilities.
   

• Data General One
  The mini-maker pulls out all the stops to put its One portable in a class of its own.
   

• Entrepro Quick Data Drive
  If patience is a virtue, Commodore owners become more virtuous every time they load a program. The Entrepo Quick Data Drive, with its tape wafers, aims to fill the gap between tape and disk - we put it through some time trials.
   
• XK Expansion System
  Four megabytes on the Spectrum? And multi-tasking? It isn't pie in the sky but you'll need a soldering iron for the XK Expansion system.
   

• Software Buyers' Guide
  Now it can be told... The full unexpurgated story of the top games for top micros with some for every taste. Including separate sections for recommended family, adventure and arcade games.
   
• QL BCPL Development Kit
  Metacomco has released an implementation of the cult language BCPL for the QL, and it gets the QLUB's seal of approval.
   

If you can't try before you buy, take the next best thing - our regular software reviews.

• Polar Perils (BBC Micro),
• Jet Boot Jack (Commodore 64/Spectrum 48K),
• Combat Lynx (Spectrum 48K),
• Gogo The Ghost (Commodore 64),
• Osprey (BBC Micro),
• Astronut (Spectrum 48K),
• Boulder Dash (Spectrum 48K),
• Lode Runner (Spectrum 48K),
• Quack A Jack (Amstrad CPC464),
• Drelbs (Commodore 64), and
• PC Fuzz (Commodore 64)

Book your seat for a quiet read.

• The Memotech MTX Program Book (Phoenix),
• The Commodore 64 ROMs Revealed (Collins),
• Impossible Routines For The Commodore 64 (Duckworth),
• The Creative Computer (Viking),
• Using Your Vic 20 As A Music Synthesiser (Interface), and
• An Introduction To Computers And Information Processing (John Wiley).

Our regular adventure trail opens the gates of Eden.

Another week on the switchback for the games and micros at the top.

Two pages of classified ads in our bargain basement.

The last round-up, plus the famous Syntax Errors and our guide to coming events.

Thanks to XXX, YYY and ZZZ for sponsoring the creation of this issue